As odd as it may seem there
exists many variations of the ten (or twelve, or 613) Biblical Commandments,
especially between the Exodus and Deuteronomy versions. Christians argue as
to the right version to this very day. Nevertheless, the following Ten Commandments
represents a typical version for many Christian faiths, especially orthodox
and Catholic Christianity.

The first three Commandments
govern the relationship between God and humans. The 4th through the 8th Commandments
govern the relationship between people. The last two Commandments govern private
thoughts.

Not a single Biblical commandment
appears in the U.S. Constitution either explicitly or implicitly. As you will
soon see, U.S. Constitution allows the violation of all the Commandments.

1. I am the
LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt. You shall have no other
gods before me.

The U.S. Constitution does
not mention God, Creator, Jesus, or Christianity anywhere. Nor does Constitutional
law require U.S. citizens to worship a God. Nor does it prevent anyone from
worshiping other gods or no god at all.

2. You shall
not take the name of the LORD your God in vain:

This commandment, to never
take the name of God in vain, appears nowhere in the Constitution. We citizens
can swear and curse any god, in any way we wish.

3. Observe
the sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the LORD your God commanded you

Not only can American citizens
not keep the Sabbath, but we can ignore it entirely without out violating the
Constitution.

4. Honor
your father and mother...

Sorry, but the Constitution
does not require anyone to honor fathers and mothers. We can even despise and
hate our parents all we want (just as the alleged Jesus taught his disciples
in Luke
14:26), without violating Constitutional law.

5. You shall not
kill (murder).

At first this may seem
Constitutional but it cannot possibly agree with it for the very reason that
the Constitution allows the declaration of war, which of course kills and murders
many innocent human beings. Murdering innocent human beings doesn't even seem
to bother many Christians!

6. You shall
not commit adultery.

The Constitution says nothing
about adultery. A man or woman can have sex with as many married people as they
like without violating the Constitution.

7. You shall
not steal.

Although states have laws
against stealing that remain consistent with the Constitution, the Federal government,
by using "eminent domain," can rob and steal from its citizens all
it wants (taking private property for "public use," for example),
without violating the Constitution. Close but no cigar.

8. You shall
not bear false witness against your neighbor.

Although one cannot lie
in a court of law, while under oath, it says nothing about lying outside the
court unless it constitutes slander. American citizens and sitting Presidents
lie all the time without violating the Constitution. Moreover the Constitution
specifically allows spying and countersurveillance, which guarantees lying to
others. Close in some narrow cases, but not at all in most.

9. You shall
not covet your neighbor's wife..."

The U.S. Constitution says
nothing against not coveting wives. You can desire your neighbor's wife all
you want. Sorry.

10. You shall
not desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant,
his ox, or his ass, or anything that is your neighbor's.

The Constitution does not
prevent you from desiring anything in, on, or around your neighbor's house,
or any other house or thing for that matter.

So there you have it. The
Ten Commandments have nothing at all to do with the U.S. Constitution. Pretty
simple and obvious once you think about it.

Note that not a single
Constitutional law derives from Christianity, much less the Ten Commandments
(which actually constitutes Hebraic commands, not Christian commandments).

The founders of the U.S.
Constitution borrowed ideas from the ancient Greeks, Romans, the Enlightenment,
and other pagan common laws. As Thomas Jefferson wrote

"For we know
that the common law is that system of law which was introduced by the
Saxons on their settlement in England, and altered from time to time by
proper legislative authority from that time to the date of Magna Charta,
which terminates the period of the common law. . . This settlement took
place about the middle of the fifth century. But Christianity was not
introduced till the seventh century; the conversion of the first christian
king of the Heptarchy having taken place about the year 598, and that
of the last about 686. Here then, was a space of two hundred years, during
which the common law was in existence, and Christianity no part of it."

--Thomas Jefferson
to Thomas Cooper, 10 February, 1814

It appears obvious that
the Ten Commandments has nothing to do with Constitutional law and it appears
equally obvious that those who promote the Ten Commandments do it for religious
reasons only, which contradicts our secular Constitution!

Instead of placing the
Ten Commandments in State courthouses and schools (which as nothing to do with
the Constitution), and which, by the way violates the Constitution, why not
place a more appropriate monument such as a plaque with the actual
words of the Constitution itself?